Without Borders

A service call took her to live and practice medicine in remote areas with no access to public services in Colombia—an experience that transformed her understanding of health and healing. In isolated villages served only by occasional medical brigades and the wisdom of local curanderos, her understanding of the body slowly shifted. She started bridging her sophisticated medical training with other ways of understanding the body’s healing processes: organs communicate, the immune system functions as “an inner communication net” (Fritjov Capra’s “second brain”), and symptoms do not require a hurried shut-off but need to be interpreted as alarms from the body’s intelligent “inner healer.”

This awakening led her to leave conventional medicine after 22 years to explore art psychotherapy, Reiki, and QiGong practices. She eventually opened Eyes Wide Open, a holistic center in Southwest Florida where she wrote Regaining Body Wisdom, a book that shares how she quit 26 years of smoking after a hands on healing session, and invites readers to embody their body’s wisdom to understand illness, health, and healing from a more holistic perspective, still informed by the science spearheading new understandings of the body.